Ethical Issues surrounding the BP Oil Spill By: Angela Higgins December 16‚ 2010 The BP Oil Spill which happened on April 20‚ 2010‚ was the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history releasing approximately 185 million gallons of crude oil into the gulf. This event was the result of a wellhead on the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling platform blowing out in the Gulf of Mexico approximately 40 miles southeast offs the Louisiana coastline. Eleven men working on the oil rig platform were killed and
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THE EXXON VALDEZ OIL SPILL Whats an oil spill ? Oil spills happen when people make mistakes or are careless and cause an oil tanker to leak oil into the ocean. There are a few more ways an oil spill can occur. Equipment breaking down may cause an oil spill. If the equipment breaks down‚ the tanker may get stuck on shallow land. When they start to drive the tanker again‚ they can put a hole in the tanker causing it to leak oil. The Exxon Valdez oil spill: On March 24‚ 1989 at 4 minutes past
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demand side drivers of price for oil. In recent years‚ the fluctuations of oil prices have gotten the attention of the whole world. From $20s in 2003‚ it hit a mid-term peak of $148 in mid 2008‚ then fell to $30 during early 2009‚ and now back to $70-$80. Economic principles have demonstrated that the rise of oil price is a function of lack of supply and greater demand. We know that oil is lack of supply since there’s no major oil field found in the last 40 years and oil can’t be made within decades
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Crude oil‚ being the leading provider of energy on this planet‚ is closely monitored‚ forecasted and heavily traded in the world market. The International Energy Agency (IEA) is one of the noted agencies in charge of accounting for current supply and estimating oil future demand. As Sohbet Karbuz reports in his article‚ Confessions of a Statistician‚ the accounting of these fundamentals is complex‚ requires significant guess work and be subject to fraud and misreported information. This makes
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The mineral rights to drill for oil at the Macondo well‚ were purchased by BP at the Minerals Management Service’s (MMS) Lease Sale No. 206‚ held in New Orleans. June 22 – Mark E. Hafle‚ a senior drilling engineer from BP‚ warns that the metal casing for the blowout preventer might collapse under high pressure Deepwater Horizon drilling rig company‚ owned by Transocean‚ begins drilling on the Macondo Prospect. The planned well was to be drilled to 18‚000 feet below sea level‚ and was to be plugged
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Major Oil Spills of the 20th and 21st century In 1989 the Exxon Valdez American oil tanker crashed into the Bligh Reef‚ off the Coast of Bligh Island in Prince William Sound‚ Alaska. The tanker was supposed to turn south after they had reached a certain point‚ Busby Island‚ but because the ship didn’t turn fast enough‚ it collided with the reef. Due to how widespread the damage was‚ 1900km of coastline was polluted. This pollution killed approximately 250‚000 seabirds‚ 2‚800 sea otters‚ 250 bald
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Project Report On “Impact of Fortune Rice Bran Oil on different stakeholders” In the partial fulfilment of Post Graduate Diploma in Management At Cargill India Pvt. Ltd. Head Office Gurgaon‚ Haryana (Apr 2013-June 2013) Submitted by Vidit Mediratta Roll No. U112119‚ PGDM 12 Under guidance of Mr Bharat Saxena Senior Brand Manager Xavier Institute of Management Bhubaneshwar Certificate This is to certify that Vidit Mediratta‚ student of PGDM 12 has successfully completed
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David Rush Professor C. Monteith Comm-3024-01 August 9‚ 2012 Edward Burtynsky: Oil From Birth to Death Edward Burtynsky was born in 1955 in St. Catharine’s‚ Ontario‚ and a graduate from Ryerson University holding a Bachelor of Applied Arts and studied Graphic Art at Niagara College in Welland. His photographic art interests stem from the sites and images of the General Motors plant in his hometown and he inspiration holds a link between industry and nature. Edward Burtynsky states “nature transformed
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Rhetorical Analysis of Garth Lenz’s: The True Cost of Oil Many people are unaware of the devastating destruction that the Alberta Tar Sands are causing on Canada’s ecosystem and the lifestyle of the native peoples of the Athabasca. The Alberta Tar Sands are large deposits of crude oil‚ also known as bitumen. The Athabasca deposit is the largest known reservoir of crude bitumen in the world. The Alberta Tar Sands are unique in the fact that it is the only oil reserve that is suitable for surface mining
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Service Corporation International This case entails Merger and Acquisition analysis of Service Corporation International’s (SCI). SCI has historically relied on growth through acquisitions‚ which has helped it with synergies due to the “cluster” approach. The growth through acquisition has turned out to be effective strategy to build on synergies by sharing various costs such as cremation‚ transportation‚ staffing‚ and inventory to achieve economies of scale. Further the three criteria of finding
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